Are you planning to participate in the Associated Contents Twitter challenge?

Strangely enough, this was in the Call for Content section. Normally when they have a contest, it's in an email. Did you check the C for C? I didn't see anything about whether it was for US only or not, but I suppose that is possible. I originally signed up for Twitter through AC many months ago because every time you write a new article on AC, it automatically sends out a Tweet for you. So even if you can't participate in the contest, you might still benefit from finding an extra reader or two!

Poor Scheng. You need to move to USA. Then you can make all kinds of money.

Haha Mommaj, it's too early for me to move to hell, otherwise I will earn hell money and have annual vacation oh.
I think I got to make arrangement with the king of hell. I just help him promote the hell hotels for tourists who want to see suffering in hell oh.
I hope this king of hell can provide lots of chocolate and coffee for me.

Ah, geez, you are talking to the queen.

HONESTLY! The US isn't that bad! I certainly wouldn't compare it to hell. LOL

I am really doing the Twitter contest as an experiment. With only a few winners, even if you are very active, I think that the chance of winning is low. I've had the Twitter account for awhile, but largely ignore it. If I learned that it could really pull in more readers, I might make a little more effort. That's what I am trying to figure out with this contest.

Let me know your name on Twitter (Pyewacket?) and I will follow you if that helps. I am AnythngArt on Twitter just like on MyLot.

Yup as you can guess my name is the same there as here...and believe it or not...we're already following each other...just looked before and discovered I was following you....LOL

It just goes to show how much I don't use Twitter. I am not even sure who I am following there. I have started tweeting about the contest and my articles, but I feel like I am sending them into a black hole. Oh well.

That's what I am trying to figure out myself! I just joined through AC because it automatically sends out a tweet when you publish an article. Does it make a difference? I don't have a clue!

That's what they claim, that you can use Twitter to talk about your writing on Associated Content and get more people to read your articles. I am skeptical, but willing to give it a shot. This contest should let me know if it works or is just a lot of bird droppings.

My Twitter name is the same as here on Associated Content--AnythngArt (no i in the Anythng) and I use my real name (Christine Zibas) on AC. If you let me know, I will do the same. Sorry if we've had this conversation before. I have a hard time keeping track of people on AC unless I follow them.

They all kind of melt together don't they!

Are you Trenna H on AC? Are you Trensue on Twitter? I hope that's you or I am following a stranger.

Trensue on Twitter - Trenna H on ac Trenna Sue Hiler on Helium!

You look so young in your Helium photo. You threw me off with this granny icon. I was expecting an old lady. LOL

The picture is right after a dye and I am an old lady!

I don't believe a word of this! LOL I noticed I have had a rise in average page views. I don't think that means anything except as soon as they go up a little more I should make better upfront payments. LOL Wish me luck. If you guys can tell me if it is safe to sign up for twitter with kids in the same room, I might too. LOL

I am not expecting to win the contest at all. I am trying to see if Twitter can get me any additional readers at AC (which I suspect is just a lot of tweeting about nothing). Without trying, I'll never know. The contest is just an excuse or experiment. It's more about twittering than writing.

I think that it will probably be negligible in helping with that, but I may as well give it a go. Hopefully I will be surprised. Day one and it's just my usual readers for my article posted for the day. Nothing new.

As for following on Twitter, mostly I follow publishing companies, art museums, and newspapers. If I happen to see something interesting, I'll read it. Most of the time, I just give it a glance and move on to the next thing. I understand your point completely!

If there is a way to make money on Twitter, I haven't found it. It's kind of a silly concept, and geared toward those with ADD. You can only type messages that are 140 characters long. I don't think many people read each other's messages either (just my opinion), although I suppose people do follow stars like Astin Kutcher and Ellen.

As for me, I mostly follow art museums and newspapers like the "NY Times" and publishing houses who are promoting their books. People use it like advertising. I guess if you love commercials, it's the online tool for you. Mostly, I think it's silly.

I just decided to use it for AC to see if it would get me any new readers...but I am skeptical.

Thanks for the information. Good luck. Hope you are able to promote your articles via Twitter.

At this point, I only seem to be collecting new Twitter friends, but no new AC article readers. Isn't that useful? (not)

I completely understand. I don't Facebook or MySpace...yet? There really isn't enough time in the day. Twitter is easy because messages are so short. It's truly designed for the ADD set. That means (I suspect) that very few people click into the links on Twitter. Like me, and I admit it, mostly I just read the short messages and move on.

It is a lot of hype. I once wrote an article "Is Twitter for the Birds?" and I am not sure that I don't still think that. I have been participating now for awhile, actively since the contest is going on. Everyone is on there promoting themselves, their work, their company, etc., but no one really follows through that I can see. My articles haven't gotten any more attention from readers than they had in the first place...or at least that's my experience.

I thought I would do the contest, just to see if I was missing something (like...the point of it all). So far, no.